Measures for Progress: A History of the National Bureau of Standards

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Term
GANO DUNN
President, J. G. White Engineering Corp., New York.
1923-48
PROF. WILLIAM F. DURAND
Professor of mechanical engineering, Leland Stanford University.
1924-29
DR. WILLIS R. WHITNEY
Director, General Electric Research Laboratory, Schenectady, N.Y.
1925-30
DR. CHARLES F. KETTERING
Director of research and vice president, General Motors Corp.
1929-34, 1947-52
DR. CHARLES L. REESE
Consulting chemist to E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.
1930-35
MORRIS E. LEEDS
President, Leeds & Northrup Co., Philadelphia, Pa.
1931-41
DR. KARL T. COMPTON
President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
1931-47
DR. WILLIAM D. COOLIDGE
Vice president and director of research, General Electric Co.
1935-49
DR. FRANK B. JEWETT 1935-45
Vice president in charge of research and development, American Telephone
& Telegraph Co.; president, National Academy of Sciences.
DR. VANNEVAR BUSH
President, Carnegie Institution of Washington; director, Office of Scientific
Research and Development.
1942-46
DR. HAROLD C. UREY
Research professor of chemistry, University of Chicago.
1945-50
DR. EUGENE P. WIGNER
Metallurgical Laboratory, University of Chicago; director of research,
Clinton Laboratories, Oak Ridge, Tenn.
1946-51
DR. ROBERT F. MEHL
Director, Metals Research Laboratory, Carnegie Institute of Technology.
1948-53
DR. DONALD H. MENZEL 1949-54
Chairman, Department of Astronomy, Harvard University; associate
director, Harvard Observatory.
DR. DETLEV W. BRONK
1950-60
President, Johns Hopkins University.
PROF. JOHN H. VAN VLECK 1951-56
Dean, Division of Applied Science, Harvard University.
DR. MERVIN J. KELLY 1952-62
President, Bell Telephone Laboratories.
DR. CLYDE E. WILLIAMS 1953-58
Director, Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio.
DR. CRAWFORD H. GREENEWALT 1954-64
President, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.
PROF. FREDERICK SEITZ .1956-61
Chairman, Department of Physics, University of Illinois.
DR. LLOYD V. BERKNER 1957-62
Scientific research administrator; chairman, Space Science Board, National
Academy of Sciences.
PROF. CHARLES H. TOWNES 1960-65
Department of Physics, Columbia University, consultant, Brookhaven
National Laboratories.